... I i - ANNUAL GENERAL SESSION OF I THE PEACE. Yesterday, a general session of the peace for the county, was mield in the Court House, House of Correction, to re- ceive the certificates of the Magistrates assembled in petty sessions, respecting the new valuation of rateable property, which has recently been elfeeted throughout the country. T. B. Addison, Esq., was called to the chair, and the ...

... ADJOURNED SPECIAL SESSIONS AT THE | NEW BAILEY. l ?? _ __ I DISPUTED ACCOUNTS OF THE MVANCHESTER AND CHEETHAM OVERSEERS. The adjourned special sessions for bearing tbe fiiether arguments in the case of the disputed accounts of the late overseers of Manchester and Cheetham was held kit the New B1ailey Court-house on Thursday. The magistrates present were Daniel Maude, Esq., and John Hall, Esq. ...

... Sir Thomas Bernard Birch?, Bart., Sherif. The commission will be opened at Lancaster this day, and the business wvill commence on Monday morning. The fol- lowing is a calendar of the prisoners for trial:- Richard Boothman, aged 20, James Wilkinson, 21, and Thomas Riley, 18, charged with the wilful murder of Joseph Halstead, at Colne. William Starlde, 19, charged with killing and slaying Alfred ...

... | HINTS TO GRAND JURORS AT QUARTER I ISESSIONS AND ASSIZES. . First.-The Grand Jury are not to try the prisoner, but use only to ascertain whether there is sufficient presumptive bei evidence to put the prisoner upon his trial. However, ] in cases where the person charged has not been sent to Di trial by a magistrate, (that is to say, where he is neither he in custody nor out upon bail,) then ...